There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
- Topic: Goals, Persistence, Purpose
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from John F. Kennedy
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
More on These Topics
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
A winner never taught me how to quit.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
